Improved picture-hanger



@aient ademt- Letters-Patent No. 103,627, dated May 3 1, 1870.

IMPRovED PICTURE-HANGER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern: A Y

I, GEORGE LAMB, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Picture Hanger, of which the following is a specification. I

Nature of the I negation- The nature of my invention consists in attaching to the endof a convenient stai a peculiar device, consisting cfa hook, start, and spur, so that it may be used in putting up picture-hooks, hanging the cord to the hook, orfor diseng. ging the cord froruthe hook,

and the hook from the picture-strip.

Generaal Description.

I make my instrument as follows: A is a long straight staff, made of any suitable wood and of any desirable dimensions. To the upper end of this stai I attach the wire B, which is formed into au S-shaped hook, D, as shown. The outer end of the hook D is provided with a start, H, fig. 1.

C is a spur, that projects laterally from tliel wire B. I

To use my invention I proceed as follows: Let M represent a picture-strip, and K, a picture-hook. To'

v put up the hook the start H is inserted into the hole h, made in" the hook for that purpose, and the hook may be readily placed at any point on thepicturestrip, or as readily removed from it.

To hang or unhang a picture, the spur G is inserted into the cord L itself, or into the Aloop formed by the cord; then the cord may be placed in the hook or removed from it.

. The' cord may be det-ached from the picture-hook by the use ofthe hook part D of thc hanger.

I `claim' as Amy invention- Thel picturefhanger, when consisting of the parts B D, start H, and spur C, arranged substantially as described and for the purpose s et forth.

GEORGE LAMB. Witnesses:

JAS. S. GONANT,

FRANK G. PARKER. 

